Abacoa Hotel, Convention Center, & Office Buildings

Hotel, convention center, office buildings in the works for Abacoa

On the horizon for Abacoa are the next two major pieces of the Abacoa master plan, the long-touted hotel and convention center across from Roger Dean Stadium and the mixed use and professional buildings that will be built on 15 acres of land just north of the stadium, where people now park to go to the baseball games.

The site plan is expected to be submitted for the mixed use and professional buildings in July or August.

The hotel will be a condominium hotel, it will look and run like a hotel, but people will own the space and then turn it back to be part of the rental pool. Adjacent to the hotel will be a 20,000 square foot conference center, which will be used for many functions, including weddings. North of the stadium, the developers Rendina and de Guardiola envision two professional buildings, each containing 100,000 square feet. In addition, there will be four restaurants, two on either side of the professional buildings, and retail with condominiums above. However, they won't have condominiums above the restaurants. We've learned about that," Rendina said. He added that at the end of this street, where it meets the residential areas just south of Indian Creek Parkway, he plans to have a pool, spa, fitness center and additional parking.

Right now, according to David Kemp, senior planner for the Town of Jupiter, there are 3,135 units completed in 12 Abacoa developments. But others are in the pipeline, either approved by the town, about to be approved or under construction and being sold. Those include 480 units in Martinique, 139 for Abacoa Dakota, 230 in Canterbury, 174 in Greenwich, 370 proposed for the final Town Center area project and 700 in two sister developments, Windsor Creek and Windsor Park. Jupiter officials said that all these living units will bring the total to more than 5,000, instead of the original 6,000 units planned for the community.

Posted by Donald Urschalitz P.A. at June 24, 2005 04:59 PM